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Kiwis spend over $1.8m on space flights
Kiwis spend over $1.8m on space flights

New Zealanders have spent more than $1.8 million booking space flights with the world's first commercial spaceline.

Anthony Scott: Science funding can help us reach for the stars

"By the end of this decade, we will land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth." President John F Kennedy's challenge…

Wheels fall off planet hunting mission

Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardising the search for other worlds. The failure could…

video Time-lapse of Southern skies

Narongsak Nagadhana toured New Zealand and captured these beautiful time-lapse videos from the South Island, Mount Cook…

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 First US vegetarian school popular with students video First US vegetarian school popular with students

In America's battle against rising obesity rates…

New video of deadly tornado video New video of deadly tornado

Video from stormchasingvideo.com shows the formation…

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Space tweeter returns to Earth
Space tweeter returns to Earth

Chris Hadfield, whose tweets and pictures from space captured the imagination of an entire planet, has landed safely on…

Interactive: NZ from space
Interactive: NZ from space

Very few people will ever have the chance to see NZ 370km from space, but thanks to two astronauts returning to Earth today…

Top 10 photos of earth from space
photos Top 10 photos of earth from space

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and Nasa’s Thomas Marshburn have become well known for their amazing photos of planet…

ISS crew return to earth
ISS crew return to earth

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man international crew has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

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Ground control to Chris: Time to return
Ground control to Chris: Time to return

Chris Hadfield flies back to Earth today having signed off after five months as commander of the International…

Spacewalking repair halts leak

Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday…

Spacewalk planned to fix station leak

Two astronauts will make a precedent-setting spacewalk Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in the International Space…

Day may get darker during partial eclipse

Up to 10 per cent of the sun will disappear over parts of Northland tomorrow, with a partial solar eclipse visible from…

Bringing back celebrity to space
Bringing back celebrity to space

Captain Kirk played a key role in thrusting Commander Hadfield to the sort of fame not enjoyed by a…

Keith Turner: Innovation the key for Team NZ

The culture in NZ is, no doubt, a leading element of what has been achieved by Team NZ in bringing this catamaran campaign…

Monster hurricane hits Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole. The eye of the cyclone…

Virgin Galactic spaceship makes first powered flight

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight today, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave…

Nasa finds Earth-like planets

Using a potent Nasa space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life may exist, astronomers say they have…

Gwynne Dyer: Filling the daily scary news quota
Gwynne Dyer: Filling the daily scary news quota

"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," wrote Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 1955…

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